Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (CD)

Channel Orange is the debut studio album by the American R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. It was released on July 10, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings after releasing his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra the previous year.

Rather than rely on samples as he had with his mixtape, Ocean wanted to approach sound and song structure differently on the album. Its recording featured guest appearances from Odd Future rappers Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator, vocalist/songwriter André 3000, and guitarist John Mayer.

Channel Orange draws on electro-funk, pop-soul, jazz-funk, and psychedelic styles, as well as nonmusical sounds such as film dialogue and ambient noise that function as interludes. Ocean's songwriting explores themes of unrequited love, decadence, social class, and drugs through the use of surrealistic imagery, conversational devices, and descriptive narratives depicting dark characters.
He titled the album as a reference to the neurological phenomenon grapheme–color synesthesia, through which he had perceived the color orange during the summer he first fell in love.
CD
Tracklist:
1 Start
2 Thinkin Bout You
3 Fertilizer
4 Sierra Leone
5 Sweet Life
6 Not Just Money
7 Super Rich Kids
8 Pilot Jones
9 Crack Rock
10 Pyramids
11 Lost
12 White
13 Monks
14 Bad Religion
15 Pink Matter
16 Forrest Gump
17.1 End
17.2 (silence)
17.3 Golden Girl